Hello! Earlier this week, a study from the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami suggested that alcohol-attributable cancer deaths in the U.S. doubled between 1990 and 2023. That’s a change from 11,361 deaths in 1990 to 23,126 deaths in 2023, according to the study. Alcohol has been linked to several different cancer types, and the researchers found that liver, breast, and colorectal cancer were among the most affected cancer types in the study.
Liver cancer is probably the most classically linked to alcohol use, though the investigators here found that was not the leading cause of alcohol-linked cancer death among younger adults. For men, that was colorectal cancer. For women, it was breast cancer.

My colleagues Isa Cueto and Lev Facher published an incredible series earlier this year on alcohol, which also touched on alcohol as a carcinogen. If you’re interested, I highly recommend checking it out.